Monday, November 29, 2010

Palau Day 8 - Monday, November 29, 2010

Today we were supposed to go out diving with Mandy but when we woke up it was pouring down rain and had been pouring most of the night too. So we ended up going out again with our dive group. We did three dives again—Ulong Channel, Sandy Paradise, and Siaes Corner.

Ulong Channel was nice again. There was not a huge amount of current, but just enough to push us along gently. It is a nice dive with lots of stuff to see, like the giant clam and the world's largest formation of lettuce leaf coral. We also saw a flat worm swimming. There were also a lot of trigger fish around.

The second dive was at Sandy Paradise or Coral Paradise—whatever the dive master decides to call it. We saw a giant school of bigeyes, a banded coral shrimp cleaning an eel, and a trigger fish trying to guard its nest.

On the third dive at Siaes Corner we saw a school of barracuda, an eel, and the usual tons of other fish and white tip and gray reef sharks. We are still waiting for the sharks to come in closer, though, for Eric to get a really good shark photo.

Tomorrow we are going to try going out diving with Mandy again. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and be nice and sunny.

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